Improvement in feed-water heaters for steam-boilers



JOSEPH RODGERS.

'lmprmiement in Feed-Water Heaters. No, 126,988, 7 v Patented May 21, 1872.

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JOSEPH RODGERS, OF OLARINGTON, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN FEED-WATER HEATERS FOR STEAM-BOILERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 126,988, dated May 21, 1872.

Specification describing anew and Improved Heater for Steam-Boilers, invented by JOSEPH RODGERS, of Glarington, in the county ofMonroe and State of Ohio.

Figure 1 represents a front view of my improved heater. Fig. 2 is a vertical transverse section of the same on the line 0 c, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a detail top view of the same.

Similar letters of referenceindicate corresponding parts.

This invention has for its object to economize fuel in the heating of water in steamboilers, and to insure a more thorough result from the heat. It consists in a novel system of circulation, as hereinafter more fully described.

A A in the drawing represent two cylindrical boilers placed side by side; more may be used in connection with my system of heater. 0 is the forward mud-drum, arranged transversely under the boilers, and connected there- By small pipes 01 d the upperends of the pipes E are connected with the boilers, as shown. Within the drum 0 is a smaller concentric pipe, H, to which the feed-water is conveyed through a pipe, 0. From the ends of H extend vertical branches f f Within E, and thence forward pipes g 9 within Gr G.

The ends of the pipes g are open; The feed- Water, entering H, branching oil into f and g,

as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent The drum 0, stand-pipe a, pipes E G, and tubes 6 f g, combined with a steam-boiler, as and for the purpose described.

JOSEPH RODGERS.

Witnesses:

J AGOB T. MORRILL, WM. B. RODGERS. 

